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[Eric Johney <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I can confirm blacklisting usbhid worked for me.  I simply made a
blacklist entry for usbhid and then in /etc/modules I loaded bcm5974 and
then usbhid.

That way usbhid still gets loaded, but after bcm5974

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[Jaunty] MacBook 5.1 touchpad not fully supported (Alpha 5 of Jaunty)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/337935
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Status in Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL): New
Status in Mactel Support: New
Status in XOrg-Driver-Synaptics - synaptics driver for XOrg: Invalid
Status in “xserver-xorg-input-synaptics” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Binary package hint: xorg

The touchpad for MacBook 5.1 is not supported completely in Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.04) as of Alpha 5 release. The pointer can move, and a physical left-click works, but that's it. I can not get tapping to respond as I could using the Mactel PPA packages with Intrepid (Ubuntu 8.10). I added the attached FDI policy file for the touchpad, and manually added the module bcm5974 to my /etc/modules file, however, Xorg is not loading or is not recognizing the touchpad policies. This file worked on Intrepid. The custom bcm5974-dkms package from the Mactel PPA provided support in Intrepid.